Risk from anti-p )
vaccine negligib

LONDON

The risk of paralytic infec-
tion from the new anti-polio
vaccine is negligible—thanks

Japan spurns
rearmament

TOKYO

If any active viru
cape the new tests, |
report, the amount is#
that the risk of pat

Plans of Premier Ichiro Hatyoyama’s Liberal Demo- to “Brunhilde’ taking .the fection is negligible
(conservative) government to revise the Japanese Pes of the unspeakable ret ak penne are:

: J “Manoney. ney are now. a

stitution to permit rmament have beer se eRe d
tit re permit es have been ee by at ee One. JS aie virus docs a
nd Communist gains in elections to the House . : 33 1: after i ica

° ie oe F te ~ reached by the British Medical + ae bears:

cillors Adiegeit

in the “250.
show that the
ained 12 additional
their hase
ouse

seats

ringing
ringing

on votes,

vote ante ined by
date in

The Comn
seats and
million

votes.

elec . saka
secretary nese
Communist party

had
campaig
“‘government’s

The ialists,
Communist support,

inst the

who

for re-
instead
the Soviet

National resentment caused
by U.S. moves to requisition
more land on Okinawa for
expanded bases and the pop-
ular demand for return of
Okinawa to Japanese soverei-
gnty was credited by the
Socialists with having won
them considerable support.

The Jap

which s
rearmame
thirds

vision.

titution,

‘ificall prohibits

, requires a two-
i for any re-

2mbers of
Cot uncillors, with
‘t of the two Com-
and two of the 15

i, are now

in a
one-third
senate r
amend

governmen it
iginally the

demo-

popular

opposi
plans.

Cypriots defy
collective fine

NICOSIA
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the town should

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not be
ng of

USSR completes
construction of
great new dam

MOSCOW

One of the world’s greatest
engineering projects has just
been completed—in the Soviet
Union.

Construction of the dam
the Angara River in
eastern Siberia; was completed
last week.

ecrcess

This means that the Irkutsk
hydro-electric power station,
one of the biggest in the Soviet

Union, will soon be put into
operation.
The Angara Dam is twice

the size of that on the Dniep-

er. It is situated near Lake
Baikal and is the first of a

s which will
rich deposits of bauxite and
other ores in the region to be
extracted cheaply and

7
easi

enable the

more

power potential of the
ar river is os to be

ater than the Volga, Dniep-
er, Don and Kama combined.

* Heading the delegation

of Soviet MPs now visit-
ing Britain is Ekaterina Furt-
seva (above), first secretary
of the Moscow City Com-
musist party and a candidate
member of the Communist
party presidium. “We are
firmly convinced that friendly
relations between Britain and
the Soviet Union are one of
the most important guarantees
of a stable peace in Europe
and throughout the world,”
she said on arrival at London
‘airport.

Research Council as pub-
lished in its annual report for
1954-55.

The first advice of the coun-
cil’s Safety Tests Committee
was to exclude frém the vac-
cine the highly virulent Type
1 Mahoney strain. It was this
which probably caused the
serious effects reported after
the U.S. accident with polio
vaccination last year.

British manufacturers have
substituted a Brunhilde Ae
1) strain, modified by I
Enders and Dr. A. B. Sabin in
the U.S. so that it has become
less virulent.

shown. It does not ®
reimported but lies 10
rise to occasional 7
cases, as do many ow
tions.

Sometimes new §
flu spread across COM ,
apparently sweePiay
cider ‘strains. 7

This adds to the diff
preventing flu th ”
use of vaccines in the*)
It cannot be predictedy,
the flu will become 4
during the following)
and, if so, what se uw
of strain of the virus}
it.

Peers veto British bi
to end death penal.

In the biggest piece of Upper Cham ber aieet uction since the Irish h Hot
controversy the House of Lords i rejected the Death Penalty (Abo lition) # %
]

majority of 143.

Of the 858 peers entitled to attend and vote, 333

42

for hanging, 95 of them against.

If, however, the bill comes
from the Commons to the

Like sozdiers everywierc, these Soviet armymen are
glad to be going home, clasping the flowers given them
by German families and with the cheers of the crowds still

ringing.

They are some of the 33,500 troops the Soviet

Union has withdrawn from East Germany in recent weeks—
a total of 53,500 during the past year. Among Soviet forces
already withdrawn is the 200th Soviet Air Division.

Lords again next session—in
the same form — it becomes
law whatever the Lords may
do.

The last few hours of the
two-day, 16-hour debate were
nothing short of a social
occasion. It was a chummy re-
union of peers who had not
seen each other for years. And
of their peeresses.

As for the peeresses, it was
a gala day for them. In their
floral hats they swarmed into
the Stranger’s Gallery and
even spilled over into one row
of press seats, ousting the re-
porters,

In a dramatic climax to the
debate, Britain’s leading judge
and leading churchman cros-
sed swords.

For half an hour the Lord
Chief Justice, Lord Goddard,
putting off his impartiality as
he had put off his wig and
gown, skilfully played on
ercotions.

He gave gruesome details of
brutal murders and asked,
amid the loudest cheers of the
whole debate: “Are these
people to be kept alive?”

The Archbishop of Canter-

bury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher,
while dissociating himself from
the abolitionists announced
that he would vote for the

bill in the Hope that it would
be amended so as to retain
the death penalty for certain
categories of murder.

And then, in what some
might have taken as the gent-
fests of rebukes to the Lord

LO

3 did so, 238 of them2
rT’

Chief Justice, he sal a
sire for retribution )
lust for retribution 7
us all on our weak 3
The more repume,
crime, the more Vi0% |.
desire that the (
should hang. It wa5 a0,

gence in “vengeful

r
The Archbishop !
bury denied that he ™jMr
ing a compromise, ? hi
fact, was what he EO]
suggest. I
Opposing BE
Haden-Guest (Laboh#ro
what was to hapPp ‘
colonies if it were DP} t
The Bishop of Mi
Dr. William Greer,
maiden speech supP

the &

bili, said he pre iti
Strangeways  Pris0o c
twice a year and ha 4
close touch with pris A
“IT do not belie ¢
should ask others 10! r
Wwe ourselves in
cumstances would 1@®
I certainly feel I
wish to be responsib
actual hanging of 4
“So far from
ought to retain “el
penalty because of ° off
officers, I believe u
to abolish it becal» ayer
prison officers.”
Viscount Stansga"
said the argument * a
stopped hanging rh
would be more aiffiet 2

blacks was a SM
dreadful one.

July 20, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNF